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Adapty

A service for mobile app subscriptions: its SDK handles in-app purchases, and its backend validates them, runs paywall A/B tests and reports subscription revenue.

What Adapty is

Written from its maker's own pages, read on 28 October 2026.

Adapty, made by Adapty Tech Inc., is a subscription backend for mobile apps. It gives developers an SDK (software development kit, a code library added to the app) for iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Unity and other platforms. Its servers validate each purchase with the app store and keep the user's access level in sync through renewals, cancellations and billing problems.

A paywall is the screen that offers the subscription. Adapty's drag-and-drop builder creates paywalls and onboarding flows that change without an app update, and A/B tests compare prices, paywalls and flows on split traffic. Revenue analytics show live revenue, MRR (monthly recurring revenue), churn and conversion, with predictions of LTV (lifetime value, the revenue a subscriber brings over time). Subscription events and revenue can be sent to other tools and back to ad platforms.

Adapty is a hosted service with open-source mobile SDKs. The standard self-serve plan is free below a monthly revenue threshold and then takes a percentage of tracked revenue; large apps get custom Enterprise pricing.

Made by
Adapty Tech Inc.
Price
Pay-as-you-go plan: free while the app earns under US$5K a month, then 1% of monthly tracked revenue (read 28 October 2026)
Free plan
free under US$5K monthly revenue

Who uses it, and for what

One row per story. The grade is for the claim that the business uses this tool, not for its revenue.

StoryWhat it does thereWhenCost statedGradeSource
Wave AIManages the app store subscriptions and paywalls, runs the paywall A/B tests, and published the ARR figures in its case study.AAdapty case study: Wave AI, growing an indie app from $0 to $4M ARR with Adapty (published 29 July 2024, later changed; archived 10 November 2024)
LetterlyRuns payments, receipt validation and subscriptions on all platforms, the paywall builder, and the MRR, ARPU and churn analytics. subscriptions SDK, Paywall Builder, revenue analyticsAAdapty case study: How a team of 10 scaled Letterly to $215K/month without building infrastructure (published 13 March 2026, modified 27 April 2026)
GlowUpRan the app's subscriptions, paywall A/B tests, revenue analytics and refund handling after RevenueCat.AAdapty case study: How GlowUp scaled to $1,2M ARR in 3 months with Adapty + FlutterFlow (published 11 March 2025, modified 24 April 2026)
WelmiRecords the in-app subscriptions, runs paywalls and A/B tests, and since 2025 matches installs to ads; its case studies state the revenue. Subscriptions SDK, paywalls, A/B tests and Adapty Attributionsince 2025about US$0.02 per attributed install, according to the co-founderAAdapty case study, published 22 December 2025, updated 21 July 2026: How Welmi.ai scaled from $60K to $200K MRR in 3 months with Adapty Attribution
LangLangManages the in-app subscriptions and the paywall. Adapty SDKCFlippa listing 12686264: LangLang, AI chat translator for Android. 700K+ installs, 4.4★, 96% margin, 100% organic, ~2 hrs/week

Grade A: the tool's maker or a payment processor confirms the use. Grade B: an independent report, or the tool is visible in public code. Grade C: the founder or the company says so.

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